[Verse 1]
She holds the world like it's made of breakable things,
Steady hands, quiet heart, still wondering what she brings
There's a whole ocean living just beneath the calm,
She learned to keep it hidden like a prayer or a psalm
They see the stillness, they don't see the tide,
All the depths she's carried, all the wars she's won inside

[PreChorus]
But still she rises with the morning, still she tends the flame,
There's a whole sky full of knowing written in her name

[Chorus]
Joanne, you are rooted and you are wild,
Earth and fire and ancient water in a single child
You don't have to earn the right to take up space,
You were written by the heavens and you're already in the right place

[Verse 2]
She loves like she means it, all the way or not at all,
She's learned to guard the doorway after taking every fall
There's a wound in the wanting, in the words left unsaid,
In the times she was speaking but was misheard instead
But every time she tried again, it cost and still she paid,
That's not weakness, that's devotion, and it never should have frayed

[PreChorus]
There's a courage in the giving and the giving unasked,
A fire that burns before the world has even caught the blast

[Chorus]
Joanne, you are rooted and you are wild,
Earth and fire and ancient water in a single child
You don't have to earn the right to take up space,
You were written by the heavens and you're already in the right place

[Verse 3]
She's the kind who feels the trembling in a room before it breaks,
Who carries others softly while she silently aches
She's mapped out every exit and she's drawn every door,
But the truest thing inside her keeps on asking for more
There's a hunger for the sacred in the marrow of her bones,
A wandering soul that built herself a hundred different homes

[PreChorus]
She's not lost, she's always searching for a meaning that is real,
And the path keeps getting clearer with the courage that she feels

[Chorus]
Joanne, you are rooted and you are wild,
Earth and fire and ancient water in a single child
You don't have to earn the right to take up space,
You were written by the heavens and you're already in the right place

[Verse 4]
She's stood between her public face and all she hides at night,
Tried to be enough for everyone, tried to hold it right
The version that they see is just the surface of the well,
There's a whole world of wisdom only she knows how to tell
She doesn't have to choose between the tender and the strong,
She was always both at once and she was never, ever wrong

[PreChorus]
The cosmos didn't stumble when it made her what she is,
Every contradiction is a gift that only she can give

[Chorus]
Joanne, you are rooted and you are wild,
Earth and fire and ancient water in a single child
You don't have to earn the right to take up space,
You were written by the heavens and you're already in the right place

[Bridge]
Let the tide come in and let the fire breathe,
You are everything you've needed, every root, every leaf
You are held by something older than the doubt in your chest,
You were always, always worthy, you can finally rest

[Outro]
The stars don't write a story that was meant to be small,
Joanne, you were always enough, you were always all